UK Broadband infrastructure - why are we so behind? 25th March 2011 1:36 PM
I feel and share your pain.
The problem is with our infrastructure, and who owns it! BT have a monopoly on phonelines, but they were installed at taxpayers expense when the BT and previous derivatives were State owned and funded.
BT are now private, but big as they are, they can't quickly and easily replace the nations underfunded and ailing infrastructure outside the large population areas.
No newcomer to the market place can afford to lay a brandnew infrastructure, and rival technologies like cable only cover a proportion of the country, with the same financial arguments hindering full coverage.
I was hoping an answer may have been with i3 whose grand plan was going to lay fibreoptic network throughout the UK sewer and other services network, removing the need to dig all the streets up and utilise existing underground services.
It sounded great in theory, but alas it all went Pete Tong, after disaster after disaster, the parent company has flogged off the broadband project
The i3 Group Sells UK Fibrecity Broadband Projects amid Council Fury
No idea what the answer is, maybe a separate organisation like rail track, but funded from central govt from an ever dwindling pot of money?
The whole copperwire network needs upgrading and replacing, and BT told us last November that the current exchange upgrade roll out was being halted due to new technology, so they were starting again.
There honest appraisal for our local office exchange getting upgraded was in the region of years. This was one of the biggest factors (next to parking) that made us relocate offices.
The problem is with our infrastructure, and who owns it! BT have a monopoly on phonelines, but they were installed at taxpayers expense when the BT and previous derivatives were State owned and funded.
BT are now private, but big as they are, they can't quickly and easily replace the nations underfunded and ailing infrastructure outside the large population areas.
No newcomer to the market place can afford to lay a brandnew infrastructure, and rival technologies like cable only cover a proportion of the country, with the same financial arguments hindering full coverage.
I was hoping an answer may have been with i3 whose grand plan was going to lay fibreoptic network throughout the UK sewer and other services network, removing the need to dig all the streets up and utilise existing underground services.
It sounded great in theory, but alas it all went Pete Tong, after disaster after disaster, the parent company has flogged off the broadband project
The i3 Group Sells UK Fibrecity Broadband Projects amid Council Fury
No idea what the answer is, maybe a separate organisation like rail track, but funded from central govt from an ever dwindling pot of money?
The whole copperwire network needs upgrading and replacing, and BT told us last November that the current exchange upgrade roll out was being halted due to new technology, so they were starting again.
There honest appraisal for our local office exchange getting upgraded was in the region of years. This was one of the biggest factors (next to parking) that made us relocate offices.
